ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,436, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Rules driven application synchronization by automatically detecting different template nodes for different synchronization targets" was invented by Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.), Matthew Lawrence Lontchar (Avon Lake, Ohio), James McCausland (Addison, Texas) and Douglas Ray Cosby (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system receives updates to records of a source dimension. Some records of the source dimension reference target dimensions. The data management system identifies template records from existing records in...